AMERICAN HISTORY



AMERICAN HISTORY

14.2 NOTES

1. What is appeasement? Was it successful?

2. Where did the Japanese display brutality towards the Chinese?

3. How did Roosevelt respond to Japanese aggression?

4. How did Germany’s actions in 1939 trigger the start of WWII?

a.

b.

c.

5. Why did the Soviet-German pact shock Europe?

6. What German military tactic was used to smash Poland? Where did German forces turn their attention to after overrunning Poland in 1939?

7. Who were the Allies? What was their strategy?

8. Which three nations formed the Axis Powers?

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b.

c.

9. What took place during the “sitzkrieg” or “phony war”?

10. What countries did Germany overrun between the fall of Poland and the Battle of Britain?

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b.

c.

d

e.

11. How did the Germans take France? What battle strategy did they use?

12. Why was a defeat at Dunkirk actually a success for the Allies?

13. Who was Winston Churchill?

14. What is Vichy France? Who led this government?(not in book)

15. How was the Battle of Britain important to the British success in WWII? What helped the British? What was the Luftwaffe?

16. What was Operation Sea Lion? Explain the Blitz? Was it successful?

17. What was the purpose of the Nye Committee?

18. What was the purpose of the Neutrality Acts? What did they call for?

19. How did the Neutrality Act of 1939 change that stance?

20. What did interventionists want? Isolationists?

21. What was the “America First Committee”? Who was their leading spokesperson?

22. Who is Edward R. Murrow? What did he do?

23. How did FDR get the United States closer to war? What steps did he take?

24. What was the Lend-Lease Act? Why was this action important?

25. What impact did the Atlantic Charter have on the United States?

26. How did Germany respond to US actions?

27. What were the “Four Freedoms” Roosevelt spoke of?

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